Emeritus Faculty
J. Bailey-Brock, PhD—invertebrate biology
G. D. Carr, PhD—systematics and evolution
S. Conant, PhD— ecology and evolution, conservation
H. G. de Couet, PhD —molecular cell biology, development biology, evolution
J. B. Hall, PhD—microbiology
F. I. Kamemoto, PhD—marine biology
S. Keeley, PhD—systematics
G. S. Losey, PhD— reef fish ethology
P. Patek, PhD—immunology
T. A. Ranker, PhD—systematics and evolution
S. A. Reed, PhD—marine biology
C. Smith, PhD—conservation, Hawaiian lichens
J. S. Stimson, PhD—evolution
A. D. Taylor, PhD—population and community ecology, applied statistics
C. Z. Womersley, PhD—physiological ecology
Cooperating Graduate Faculty in Zoology
B. Bowen, PhD—phylogeography and conservation genetics of marine vertebrates
R. Cowie, PhD—origins and determinants of biological diversity in Pacific islands
M. Donahue, PhD—spatial population dynamics; marine community ecology; habitat selection, scaling of ecological processes
E. Franklin, PhD—marine ecology coral reefs, fish and fisheries, invasive species, restoration ecology
D. K. Hartline, PhD—quantitative neurophysiology and simulation of simple networks
K. N. Holland, PhD—physiology, behavior, ecology of aquatic organisms
S. Honarvar, PhD—ecology and conservation biology, sea turtles and primates
K. Y. Kaneshiro, PhD—systematics, evolution, insect behavior
P. Lenz, PhD—neuroecology of zooplankton sensory systems
E. Madin, PhD—marine community ecology and food webs, fish behavior
M. McFall-Ngai, PhD—animal-bacterial symbioses, molecular design of tissues that interact with light
M. Medeiros, PhD—evolutionary biology, ecology of infectious pathogens
R. Richmond, PhD—invertebrate zoology, conservation biology
E. Ruby—microbe-host signaling, comparative genomics and population biology
R. Toonen, PhD—molecular genetics of marine organisms
J. Yew, PhD—chemical communication of insects, neurobiology of chemosensory perception, mass spectrometry methods for natural product chemistry
Cooperating Graduate Faculty in Botany
A. S. Amend, PhD—evolutionary ecology (B)
D. A. Christopher, PhD—gene regulation of photosynthesis, uv effects
S. Honarvar, PhD—ecology and conservation biology, sea turtles and primates
C. L. Hunter, PhD—reef ecology
N. Hynson, PhD—mycorrhizal symbiosis, mycoheterotrophic plants, plant-fungal community feedbacks in pioneer and invaded ecosystems
R. Ostertag, PhD—ecology
J. Price, PhD—native bird and plant species hotspots with GIS, area identification for restoration
of threatened and endangered species
K. Winter, PhD—biocultural restoration of socio-ecological systems in Hawai‘i
R. Zahawi, PhD—tropical forest ecology, restoration ecology
Cooperating Graduate Faculty in Microbiology
R. Alegado, PhD—microbial ecology and evolution; microbiome of coastal habitats
M. Arif, PhD—host-bacterial interactions, bacterial genomics, phylogenomics and evolution, molecular diagnostics, microbiome
D. Borthakur, PhD—plant-microbe interactions
S. P. Chang, PhD—immunology and vaccine development; effect of molecular adjuvants on B cell development and differentiation
Z. Du, PhD—synthetic biology for valuable bioproducts; symbiosis of microbes; lipid metabolism in photosynthetic organisms; tropical crop engineering and breeding; bioreactor design and applications
J. Graf, PhD–interactions between microorganisms and animals, using genetics, microscopy and
next-generation sequencing, in medicinal leeches, humans, other animals and aquatic biofilms
M. Kirs, PhD—microbiological water quality standards and public health; microbial source
tracking; impact of anthropogenic contaminants on the environment; phycotoxins; taxonomy and systematics
Q. X. Li, PhD—chemical proteomics, microbial transformation, and enzymology
V. R. Nerurkar, PhD—pathogenesis of infectious diseases; delineating cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying microbe-host interaction
Z. Wang, PhD–environmental biotechnology, nutrient removal, resource recovery